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Triage Assessment and NEWS-score as Risk Predictor in Older Frailty Adults in the ED

NCT03783234 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1711

Last updated 2022-02-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Emergency Department Triage Systems have not been shown to sufficiently recognize frail elderly patients in need of urgent assessment and care. In this prospective, observational study the performance of the 3-level triage system and the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) 2 are assessed (separately and combined) for predicting adverse outcomes in older frailty patients visiting in the ED. Observational data for this study is gathered as part of GAOPS - main study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03751319).

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • City of Espoo

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Helsinki

    collaborator OTHER

  • Helsinki University Central Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Veli-Pekka Harjola · Department of Emergency Medicine and Services, Helsinki University Hospital

  • Janne Alakare, MD · Department of Emergency Medicine and Services, Helsinki University Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-12-11
Primary Completion
2019-09-01
Completion
2020-10-28

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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